Synopsis
Other Desert Cities - Nominated 2012 Tony Awards Best Play
Published by Grove Press
4 Male 5 Female
A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened
Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it
Her brother won't play her game - her aunt knows way too much, and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet
In this family, secrets are currency and everyone is rich
In simplest terms, the play is about a girl who comes home to the desert with a story about where she is from, who her people really are, what she thinks they really are
Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed this country
She goes to war with them, and blood is spilled ...